Naw, we've been being good kiddies.
I just binged the Paradise Kiss anime like, yesterday and this morning. It's kinda shoujo, but not drippy or sappy. Mostly it's about loss and growing up and having DREAMS. And fashion. Lots of fashion. And while it might not be up your alley, it is REALLY COOL.
... SCRATCH THAT WATCH GUNDAM UNICORN. I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET ANYONE TO WATCH IT AND IT'S BEAUTIFUL. WITH BEAUTIFUL ANIMATION AND FANTASTIC FEMALE CHARACTERS. THEY KILL ALL THE THINGS AND DO ALL THE POLITICS. Only two eps so far, but they're long, and the third will have its global release sometime in March.
We all learned about Nuu and Schumie through their comic Honeydew Syndrome:
http://www.honeysyn.net/ which you won't like, probably, because it's an adorable, awkward romance. Followed by a painful, nonsense romance. But they do good stuff besides that. They have a comic going right now called Two Keys:
http://www.mangamagazine.net/manga/9 which I'm enjoying a lot. There's also Ten Thousand Flags, which I never read.